ALABAMA CHAPTER OF NENA - QUARTERLY MEETING
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
JANUARY 26, 1996

I. CALL TO ORDER: President Bill Brodeur called the meeting to order at 10:00a.m.

A. WELCOME: Gary Jordan with Bellsouth welcomed everyone to Birmingham and invited everyone to tour the B-Tac after lunch.

II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Motion and second to approve the agenda. Motion carried.

III. INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS AND GUEST: Bill Brodeur welcomed all first time members and guest to the meeting.

IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OCTOBER MEETING: Motion and second to approve minutes as submitted. Motion Carried.

V. APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL REPORT: Motion and second to accept report as submitted. Motion carried.

VI. SPECIAL ELECTION OF 2ND VICE PRESIDENT: There being only one nomination for 2nd Vice President there was a motion and a second to elect Art Faulkner. Motion carried.

VII. COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. CONFERENCE Seth stated that everyone need to contact him and let him know what they wanted to see at the conference this year. B. LEGISLATIVE Art Faulkner told everyone that the levelized funding bill had passed through the legislature and had been signed into law by the Governor. C. NEWSLETTER A price was set on ads for the newsletter at $50.00 for a half page and $100.00 for a full page. Seth said that anyone that had an article for it should contact Brenda with his office. He encouraged people to please contact them with articles.

D. TRAINING Calhoun Co. 9-1-1 will get a list of all training materials to Seth to put in the newsletter.

E. WIRELESS John Ellison told there was good news on the wireless issue. There is a tentative agreement that within 12 months of the final agreement we would be able to receive 7 or 10 digit ANI from the caller.

F. ADDRESSING Debbie Higgings said that they did not have enough response to the addressing questionnaire to send out a report at this time.

G. LEVELIZED BILLING Art had already discussed this issue.

VIII. OLD BUSINESS: A. EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH (EMD) Bill reported that the executive board would be working on the EMD issue.

B. INCORPORATION OF AL NENA Bill informed everyone that we had been incorporated and a copy of the incorporation papers were handed out.

C. MEMBERSHIP John advised that National NENA was addressing the issue of membership standards and ask what the feelings of the state chapter was on the issue.

IX. NEW BUSINESS A. RELEASE OF DATABASE INFORMATION Seth discussed an Attorney Generals opinion on the issue of releasing information from a county’s database.

B. TIME CLOCKS AT THE PSAP’S Bill reported a problem he had experiences with the clock in his PSAP equipment and Ray Preston with Bellsouth discussed working on a solution to the problem.

C. FROM THE FLOOR Bill discussed the problem with the AT&T language line. Some useds were not using their ID number and there was no way to bill udders properly.

Motion and a second to adopt a policy for making refunds on conference registration. Motion carried. The policy is with exception to medical emergency or a death refunds requested within 30 days of the conference or may replace with another person.

X. FOR THE GOOD OF THE ASSOCIATION: Ray Preston stated that the emergency page in the phone book had been standardized across 9 states. XI. NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD IN FORT PAYNE, APRIL 25, 1996 AT 9:00A.M.

With no further business the meeting was adjourned.

Submitted by

Art Faulkner, 2md VP

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